Do you agree with Dan Grabauskas's decision to ban cell phone but install new phone lines in employee hot-spots?
By panda - Tue, 06/30/2009 - 2:27pm.
Yes, it's a great idea!
32% (64 votes)
I don't really like it...
8% (15 votes)
C'mon. All T decision's are stupid-I think this is stupid and a waste of money and time!
32% (64 votes)
Yesssss! No more crashes, no more disasters, hopefully a decrease in incompentent T drivers!
13% (26 votes)
I'm an Orange Line car. You think I care?
15% (30 votes)
Total votes: 199
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Best answer choice, EVER
This expresses my belief, totally. No matter what decision the T makes, it's stupid. Seriously, when people lose faith in something, pretty much nothing can be done to restore it. To paraphrase Thomas Paine, "Trust is much easier kept than restored."
In this case, specifically, I think both decisions were stupid and just go to show that the decision making process at the T is flawed.
There was nothing wrong with drivers using their cell phones while on break or in between runs, in my opinion.
So, the T got scared and made a bad decision to outlaw phone usage; now it's made an equally stupid decision to spend money on phone lines.
Thanks.
You make a good point. With all the bad decisions, crashes, and the rest, when an occasional good one comes through, some people are liable to think "oh, they're just doing this to please us, not because they actually think it's a good idea."
Besides Mr. Quinn's escapade, there seems to be lots of
other evidence (namely citizen complaints to the MBTA) to suggest that enough MBTA employees cannot be trusted to use their cell phones only off-duty or on break.
In that context, IMO, the total phone ban is actually a very logical and sensible step on management's part.
If it comes down to giving the employees their cell phones back, or putting in additional landline phones in designated break areas, I vote for the latter. A bus driver isn't going to run a red light and broadside another vehicle talking on a landline phone at the garage between runs.
And for those of you who think management is overreacting, I know there are least 49 people who would disagree with you.